Be a Master of Craps – Hints and Tactics: The History of Craps
Be cunning, play cunning, and master craps the ideal way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is just about 100 years old. Modern craps developed from the old English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s soldiers gambled on Hazard amid a siege on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the castle’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when exiled by the British, the French moved down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is acquired from the term for the losing toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi scows and throughout the nation. A great many consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn assembled the modern craps layout. He added the Do not Pass line so players can bet on the dice to lose. Later, he invented the boxes for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.